App Store Updates (but only Updates) cannot connect to iTunes Store

The App Store icon on my homescreen shows I have 6 updates waiting to download.

When I go to App Store > Updates it says "Cannot connect to iTunes Store".

I can browse online with Safari so have internet connectivity. Every other tab in the App Store (e.g. Top 25) connects and I can download new apps. I can also access the iTunes store by using the iTunes icon - I can view and download anything from iTunes. The ipod touch can therefore connect to the iTunes Store, but for some reason the App Store Updater cannot.

I'm using OS 5.1.1, have searched the forums, shutdown and restarted the ipod, checked the DNS, logged out and in of my iTunes account, used different wi-fi networks, but no progress. Any tips would be massively appreciated !

Just read that if you change the date (I did two years into the future) and go to updates, it will mention some security issue. Just change the date back to the current date and go into updates and it should work.

I have tried this and seems to be helping eveyone but me. I have gone as far ahead as it would let me and still no progress when going back to present date. Is there something I am not doing right? This is a problem on my iPad 3

THANKS... schan20, this worked for me as well. i've been trying to resolve this for 4 days and just when i was about to throw my iPhone 4 at a brick wall, this worked. i contacted Verizon, Apple, went to the "Genius" bar, etc... and they all proved incompetent.

To the people that this hasn't worked for...make sure you close the app in the multi-tasking bar first before changing the date and then when you reload the app store it should now present you with the security error and then just change the date and time back like schan20said and the app updates will be working

Tried it for the last 15 minutes…, I didn't realize you could close apps. Good to know. It didn't work for me. Now I'm updating each app individually, then I'll sync and back up to my laptop with iTunes.

Thanks schan20, this worked perfect. I closed all apps, double tapping home key from home screen, turned set date and time automatically off, clicked set daate and time, changed year to 2014. I then opened updates on apps and got the security message, went back to set date and time, turned on set automatically, opened app store back up (did not force close after security message) , got to loading and had 21 apps to update

Not sure what caused this initially; but some things I had done in the past were, I had set date and time auto off, I had changed the date and time numerous times in a row for the game deer hunter reloaded to get gold, most of the time stopping around August each time. Other than that, I have not made any major changes or added any apps when it stopped working.

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